The men's singles competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 5 February (heats 1 and 2) and 6 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District. Johannes Ludwig of Germany won the event. For him this was the first individual Olympic gold medal. Wolfgang Kindl of Austria won the silver, and Dominik Fischnaller of Italy bronze. For Kindl and Fischnaller also, these were their first Olympic medals.
The defending champion was David Gleirscher, who was standing in the 10th position at the 2021–22 Luge World Cup before the Olympics and qualified for the competition. Chris Mazdzer, the 2018 silver medalist, qualified as well. Johannes Ludwig, the 2018 bronze medalist, was leading the 2021–22 Luge World Cup before the Olympics and considered the top favorite. Wolfgang Kindl was the second in the World Cup, and the 2010 and 2014 Olympic champion Felix Loch was the third.
Ludwig won three runs out of four, in two of them setting the track record. Kindl won the second run and was second in the other three. Fischnaller was third in three runs.
Qualification
The qualification is based on the cumulative points of the Olympic Season from 1 July 2021 to January 10, 2022. A total of 35 quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. Each NOC can enter a maximum of three athletes.
In the men's singles, all nations with an athlete in the top 50 qualified one slot. If there were remaining spots left, the second best athlete of each nation in the top 32 was awarded an additional quota, with the third best being awarded a quota if there were any remaining spots.
On December 17, 2021, the International Luge Federation announced that the qualification system was changed. The qualification system was changed due to training runs being cancelled at the first World Cup, and equipment not being delivered to the following World Cups. The new system will see athletes qualify based on their top four results during the World Cup season, (as opposed to the previous all seven results counting).
On January 19, 2022 the International Luge Federation announced the list of qualified athletes.
Summary Number of sleds Athletes totalNation31824113 35 35
Results Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Run 3 Rank Run 4 Rank TotalFinal results Behind 4 Johannes Ludwig 57.063 TR 1 57.438 2 57.043 TR 1 57.191 1 3:48.735 1 Wolfgang Kindl 57.110 2 57.430 1 57.117 2 57.238 2 3:48.895 +0.160 10 Dominik Fischnaller 57.361 3 57.444 3 57.461 5 57.420 3 3:49.686 +0.951 4 2 Felix Loch 57.383 5 57.500 4 57.510 7 57.485 6 3:49.878 +1.143 5 3 Kristers Aparjods 57.364 4 57.597 6 57.399 4 57.693 9 3:50.053 +1.318 6 5 Max Langenhan 57.606 9 57.536 5 57.521 8 57.429 4 3:50.092 +1.357 7 7 Gints Bērziņš 57.414 7 57.709 7 57.480 6 57.570 7 3:50.173 +1.438 8 18 Chris Mazdzer 57.780 10 58.039 9 57.779 10 57.779 10 3:51.377 +2.642 9 12 Roman Repilov 57.594 8 58.679 16 57.714 9 57.647 8 3:51.634 +2.899 10 8 Semen Pavlichenko 57.786 11 58.115 10 57.955 13 57.793 11 3:51.649 +2.914 11 24 Leon Felderer 57.814 12 58.211 11 57.855 11 57.960 14 3:51.840 +3.105 12 6 Nico Gleirscher 59.110 27 58.351 14 57.370 3 57.452 5 3:52.283 +3.548 13 21 Tucker West 58.079 15 57.831 8 58.534 21 57.916 13 3:52.360 +3.625 14 16 Aleksandr Gorbatcevich 58.139 16 58.339 13 58.080 14 58.043 15 3:52.601 +3.866 15 11 David Gleirscher 57.407 6 58.240 12 58.908 26 58.617 20 3:53.172 +4.437 16 22 Alexander Ferlazzo 58.216 19 58.994 24 58.122 16 57.887 12 3:53.219 +4.484 17 14 Reid Watts 58.049 14 59.071 25 58.108 15 58.065 16 3:53.293 +4.558 18 23 Artūrs Dārznieks 58.166 17 59.370 28 57.932 12 58.241 17 3:53.709 +4.974 19 19 Jonathan Gustafson 57.845 13 59.330 27 58.496 20 58.275 18 3:53.946 +5.211 20 34 Svante Kohala 58.517 21 58.779 20 58.368 18 58.333 19 3:53.997 +5.262 21 15 Jozef Ninis 58.205 18 58.764 19 58.856 23 2:55.825 22 20 Anton Dukach 58.873 25 58.726 18 58.408 19 2:56.007 23 26 Rupert Staudinger 58.731 22 58.960 22 58.622 22 2:56.313 24 25 Fan Duoyao 58.848 23 58.883 21 58.895 25 2:56.626 25 35 Mateusz Sochowicz 58.863 24 59.196 26 58.867 24 2:56.926 26 32 Marián Skupek 58.956 26 58.976 23 59.051 27 2:56.983 27 13 Andriy Mandziy 32 58.706 17 58.346 17 2:58.134 28 33 Pavel Angelov 59.555 29 59.753 29 59.545 29 2:58.853 29 17 Valentin Creţu 58.349 20 58.362 15 34 2:58.934 30 30 Michael Lejsek 59.542 28 59.945 31 32 2:59.567 31 27 Saba Kumaritashvili 30 32 31 3:00.393 32 28 Seiya Kobayashi 31 33 59.859 30 3:01.634 33 29 Lim Nam-kyu 34 59.794 30 59.538 28 3:01.770 34 31 Mirza Nikolajev 33 34 33 3:05.349 9 Kevin Fischnaller
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